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Dual Honors for Trinity
Associate Professor Kathleen Curran:
Henry Russell Hitchcock Book Award and National Endowment for
the Humanities
Summer Stipends Award
Hartford, Conn., April 15, 2005—Trinity
College Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Kathleen Curran, has won the
2005 Henry Russell Hitchcock Book Award for her book, The
Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange,
Penn State University Press, January 2003. The award is presented
annually by the Victorian Society in America.
Drawing on her extensive archival research and wide reading in the
theological and political literature of the period, Curran sets
Romanesque Revival architecture in the context of debates on the roles
church and state should and could play in modern society. The volume
also breaks new ground by bringing to the fore the figures—diplomats,
theologians, educational reformers, clergymen, and rulers—who
supported Romanesque Revival architecture in large part because of the
style's many associations with the staunch faith and communal
solidarity of the early Christian era.
The Henry Russell Hitchcock Award is given in honor of one of the
early presidents of the Victorian Society in America in recognition of
his significant contributions to architectural history. The Victorian
Society in America is the only national non-profit organization
committed to historic preservation, protection, understanding,
education, and enjoyment of 19th-century heritage.
Curran has also won a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Stipends Award for this coming summer. The topic of her research
project is “Craft and Culture on Display: The American Art Museum,
1870-1940.” Summer Stipends Awards support individuals pursuing
advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the
public's understanding of the humanities. Award recipients usually
produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books
on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions,
or other scholarly tools.
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